July 23, 2010

I’d like to share some exciting news. Last Friday we delivered our third and final milestone release for the next version of Rational Asset Manager. It features innovations in usability, new and improved integrations, and more flexible licensing and deployment options.

New factors are included in the search relevance algorithm. These include asset popularity, asset version, and asset modification date. This ensures that the most relevant assets are displayed first in search results

Cloud Support

RAM 7.2.0.1 is now available on the IBM Cloud. Once you have an account, you can go to the control panel and add an instance of RAM 7.2.0.1

RAM 7.2.0.1 on the Cloud

New Lifecycle Configuration Options

When defining a lifecycle transition rule you can now specify reviewers who must approve or reject the asset to continue to the next state. It’s also possible to configure whether state collaborators will receive e-mail notifications.

New Lifecyce Configuration Options

Create work items on a remote RTC server

You can now create new work items on a remote RTC server from within RAM. You can do this either through a custom attribute or in a forum post. You still must have credentials on the remote RTC server.

Work item preview

Work item previews are now embedded in the page, instead of being displayed as a popup. This allows you to view more than one work item at a time. When hovering over a work item link, a plus icon will appear. Clicking that icon will open a section showing the details of the work item.

Work item preview

…. And more!

To see some of these new features in action, you can create an instance of RAM 7.2.0.1 on the IBM cloud.

July 18, 2008

One of the concepts of this blog is to give you a heads up on new information about Rational Asset Manager that isn’t publicly known yet. Since Rational Asset Manager is about sharing, governing and reusing assets, we thought we would give you our customers a place to exchange assets related to Rational Asset Manager. Since Developerworks already has an existing infrastructure “Exchange Place” on line we decided to take advantage of it. We will shortly be adding a new Rational Asset Manager Exchange to this area. The exchange will probably be live within a week or so. This will be a great place for you to contribute and get assets from customers like yourselves that are using RAM. It will be based on “Quid pro quo” mantra of the internet. If no one contributes then no-one receives the benefit. Many contribute then many will receive the benefit.

Here are some examples of assets you may want to consider contributing.
Category Schema – Like industry or Geography
Asset Type definitions –
Policies –
Assets – Like tips and techniques for Rational Asset Manager, or other best practices documents you have used to roll out RAM.